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HSE postpones cost recovery plan
The Health and Safety Executive has postponed the launch of its new cost recovery scheme for at least six months. The organisation planned to launch the Fee for Intervention scheme next month to recover costs from health and safety offenders. The money was to cover the ...
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Disclosure
Pre-trial or post-judgment relief - Disclosure of documents - Orders being made in phone-hacking case limiting disclosure of court documents Various Claimants v News Group Newspapers Ltd and another: ChD (Mr Justice Vos): 27 February 2012 ...
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Revised FIT hit in solar plexus
Government plans to amend the Feed-In Tariff (FIT) scheme were torpedoed again on 25 January, this time by the Court of Appeal. The scheme had already taken a first instance hit before Christmas with the judgment of Mitting J. However, following the Court of Appeal’s judgment, and while former energy ...
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Closing QS member blames Jackson
A two-partner member of the QualitySolicitors network has blamed its closure on the Jackson reforms and the ‘spectre’ of reduced fees for personal injury claims. QualitySolicitors Carters, which carried out personal injury and clinical negligence work, ceased trading at the end of February. The 10-year-old Peterborough ...
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ECHR withdrawal ‘gift to Putin’
Britain’s withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights in favour of a British bill of rights would be Vladimir Putin’s ‘best present ever’, an East European delegate at a Council of Europe event for lawyers told the Gazette last weekend.
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Sports law: rules of the game
The complex web of commercial and regulatory issues that surrounds sport is occupying an ever-increasing amount of lawyers’ time. That was evident at the Law Society’s Sports Law Conference, held at Chancery Lane last week. It may be true that, as Charles Russell partner Simon Johnson told the conference, ‘a ...
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Firms must cut staff, warns RBS
Law firms may have to cut thousands more solicitors to restore profits to pre-2008 levels, according to Royal Bank of Scotland’s 2012 review of the legal profession. The report says that at least 5% of fee-earners may have to be culled.
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Many contributions offer fresh and original insights on the topics to hand
One of the more gratifying aspects of the development of the Gazette’s website in the last three years has been the democratisation of comment on our content. Some readers may still not be aware there are comment threads on news stories. Many contributions offer fresh and original insights on the ...
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UK lawyers leading Camp Ashraf challenge
by Hossein Abedini, a member of parliament in exile of Iranian Resistance At a glance one might ask why UK lawyers are doing all they can to help 3,400 Iranian refugees in a camp based some 3,000 miles away in Iraq. The two groups are not ...
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Breaking the silence
It is perhaps ironic that a lecture by a judge on when it might be appropriate for judges to speak to reporters should have remained unnoticed by reporters until two weeks after it was delivered.
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MPs call for review of legal aid cuts
The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has added its voice to calls for an independent assessment of the impact of the government’s cuts to legal aid. In a hard-hitting report on Ministry of Justice finances, the committee said the government’s own impact assessment ‘has ...
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Spectres at the feast
When you’re amid like-minded souls in the comforting surroundings of the Inner Temple’s Grand Hall, it’s easy to feel invincible. Especially when there’s nearly unlimited wine flowing (thank you the Nuffield Foundation). So it was something akin to a victory rally last week when the ...
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Taking the biscuit
Anyone wondering whether those in government are hep to modern technology should be in no doubt after justice minister Lord McNally’s performance at a conference last week. Responding to a question on whether the forthcoming defamation bill would be compatible with the EU directive on ...
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Higher calling
Hitesh Keshvala of London firm Ally Lindsay has risen to the challenge of claiming to be the country’s youngest higher rights advocate. ‘My date of birth is 1/6/87 and I qualified with higher rights on 15 November 2011, making me a higher rights advocate at 24 years and 167 days.’ ...
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Taking the PI
Toilet humour is not usually welcome at any time but it got a laugh on this occasion. As the men queued during a break in Wednesday’s Claims Management Conference in Manchester, one moaned about the length of the line. ‘Give it a year and there’ll be ...
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Claimant firms warned of wind of change
A leading insurance solicitor has urged claimant firms to follow the lead of defendants and change their business model. Anthony Hughes, chief executive of national firm Horwich Farrelly, told the 2012 Claims Management Conference yesterday that change is inevitable in the personal injury market. ...
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‘Primordial role’ no excuse for gender stereotyping, ECHR rules
Gender stereotyping can breach the rights of men and women alike, irrespective of prevailing social attitudes or perceptions of ‘man’s primordial role’, Europe’s human rights watchdog ruled today. It said that it would not be in the public interest to allow someone’s choice of employment to imply that he or ...
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Lukewarm reaction to Osborne's £20bn loan scheme
The legal sector has given a tepid welcome to the £20bn low-interest loan scheme announced by the chancellor in the runup to this week’s budget. William Arthur, consultant at professional services consultancy Kerma Partners, said: ‘There is no sense of a pent-up and unsatisfied demand ...